Interpretation Services

Language Assistance and Interpretation

Southwest Healthcare System (SWHCS) recognizes the importance of ensuring those patients and their surrogate decision makers with limited English proficiency (LEP) and deaf or hard of hearing patients receive the same level of healthcare services as its hearing patients. Effective communication is a patient right and necessary for patient safety. This policy addresses the hospital’s policy and practice with respect to providing interpreter services and accommodations to the LEP, deaf and hard of hearing patients.

Southwest Healthcare System is owned and operated by a subsidiary of Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS), a King of Prussia, PA-based company, that is one of the largest healthcare management companies in the nation.

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